Can static habitat protection encompass critical areas for highly mobile marine top predators? Insights from coastal East Africa

This file contains sightings and group size data collected by GVI and KWS on the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin population from 2006 to 2009 in southern Kenya . The data is organized by grids of 1km2. The latitude and longitude are the centroid of each grid. A total of 10 environmental variables (5 dynamic and 5 static) are included for each grid during each season. Only grids with a minimum effort on each season are included on this file and for this reason different grids were sampled over the study period. Sightings and group size data are provided on absolute number and binomial (presence/absence).